Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rainwater, best known for his in vestigations into the plight of the urban poor, is retiring after 23 years in the Sociology Department...
...yourself the plight of Flint, the once-bustling factory city profiled by filmmaker Michael Moore in "Roger...
...tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
...becomes ever more difficult to maintain that the victims are somehow so different from the viewing public that their plight cannot be evaluated from outside...that outsiders are duty bound to look the other way," she said...
Still, a greater and more ongoing effort is needed to help those who survive the concentration camps. In a comparable situation one-and-a-half years ago, Harvard students formed a group called Harvard Against Repression of the Kurds (HARK) to publicize and help alleviate the plight of the Kurdish refugees fleeing Saddam Hussein's oppression in the wake of the Gulf War. The group raised over $1,000 to assist U.N. relief efforts and organized petitions, forums and a campus benefit concert to raise attention to the humanitarian disaster in Iraq...